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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: For what should I give grounds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: They were verbally threatened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: The bottom line is that the feis has been cancelled and it is not the first event that has been cancelled. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign does not speak for me or many others. I am a supporter of the Palestinian cause, as the Senator is aware, but this does not help the Palestinian cause or encourage Irish people to support it. I ask the Minister to outline his views on the issue.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (9 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scanners operating in St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28104/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name and patron of all new primary schools opened or planned in the Dublin Rathdown constituency since 2011. [28925/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (14 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 809. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of both primary and secondary schools in the Dublin Rathdown constituency which since 2011 received funding for additional classrooms. [28926/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (14 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 939. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Luas cross-city utilities diversion works are on schedule to finish in September 2015 as indicated on the Luas Cross-City Website. [28935/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (14 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 940. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Luas cross-city main infrastructure works, which according to the Luas Cross City Website commenced in March 2015. [28936/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (15 Jul 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme for those persons over 23 years of age, who are living in their parents' home on 1 January of a particular year due to the current housing shortage and the high cost of rent, but who are not dependent on their parents' income, other than paying reduced rent to them; and if...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I ask the Acting Chairman to convey my thanks to the Ceann Comhairle for choosing this issue because it is extremely urgent. While I am sorry the Minister herself cannot be present, she spoke to me earlier and is aware of the issue, which in a nutshell is the absence of permanent sites for the four schools that are planned for what still is Dublin South, although it eventually will become...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I thank the Minister of State for that information and I am particularly pleased to note that a permanent site has been acquired for the Stepaside school, which is welcome. My main concern, if I have one, is about the secondary school. The Minister of State has indicated that a site has been identified but due to commercial sensitivity, it cannot be indicated. I have been getting that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 360. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the legislation governing the rent-a-room scheme prohibits the exclusion of Airbnb from the scheme or if this is an interpretation of the legislation by the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31560/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Migration Issues (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 377. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to respond positively to the Council of Europe Development Bank request to supplement their proposed new grant facility to finance emergency reception and transit centres of asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31860/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 749. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will consider including the sapropterin drug, Kuvan, in its reimbursement scheme, in order to help patients here with phenylketonuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30532/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 961. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the waiting times for intervention at the Dublin South East Health Service Executive Early Intervention Team based in Ballinteer, Dublin 16 due to staff shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31266/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (22 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: 1209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will announce the location of the new Educate Together secondary school to serve the Stepaside/Rathfarnham area, Dublin which is due to open in September 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30681/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: That really is not relevant to this discussion.

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: You are indeed.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: I agree it is a real problem that there are long waiting lists and large numbers of patients on trolleys. While this is not acceptable to any of us, it is nothing new. For most of the time I have spent in this House, unimaginable funds were available and were indeed spent on health by the Government of the day. Despite this, waiting lists continued to grow and overcrowded emergency...